Meeting Minutes

Agenda

ARM Status

Various arm kernel flavours: pushed out missing maverick/mvl-dove kernel,
it marks the end of this round of kernel updates.

Oneiric/ti-omap4: work continues on the video (latest kernel broke pvr driver
and the omap fb seems incompatible with latest omap drm) and audio (we managed
to get audio out of panda via aplay but not through pulseaudio yet) fronts.

Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs

Release Metrics

oneiric nominated bugs

39 linux kernel bugs (up 19)

Ubuntu ubuntu-11.10-beta-2 bugs

2 linux kernel bugs (up 2)

-updates bugs

0 oneiric linux kernel bugs (no change 0)

15 natty linux kernel bugs (no change 0)

3 maverick linux kernel bugs (no change 0)

7 lucid linux kernel bugs (no change 0)

0 hardy linux kernel bugs (no change 0)

Incoming Bugs

191 oneiric bugs (up 19)

1596 natty bugs (up 11)

1087 maverick bugs (up 3)

959 lucid bugs (up 1)

32 hardy bugs (no change 0)

Regressions

regression-update bugs

0 oneiric bugs (no change 0)

16 natty bugs (up 1)

40 maverick bugs (no change 0)

78 lucid bugs (up 3)

0 hardy bugs (no change 0)

regression-release bugs

7 oneiric bugs (up 1)

433 natty bugs (down 2)

237 maverick bugs (down 1)

213 lucid bugs (no change 0)

2 hardy bugs (no change 0)

regression-proposed bugs

0 oneiric bugs (no change 0)

3 natty bugs (no change 0)

0 maverick bugs (no change 0)

1 lucid bugs (no change 0)

0 hardy bugs (no change 0)

Milstone Targeted Work Items

apw

other-kernel-o-bug-handling

2 work items

other-kernel-o-version-and-flavours

1 work item

other-kernel-o-ubuntu-delta-review

1 work item

desktop-o-xorg-stakeholders-request

2 work items

ppisati

other-kernel-o-ubuntu-delta-review

1 work item

sarvatt

desktop-o-xorg-tools-and-processes

1 work item

smb

other-kernel-o-server-requirements

1 work item

If your name is in the table above, please review your Beta 2 work items.

Status: General Oneiric

Last week we uploaded the 3.0.0-11.17 Ubuntu kernel. I’m planning one more upload today in order to hit Kernel Freeze on Thurs. I would like to remind everyone that after Kernel Freeze all patches are subject to our SRU policy in order to be applied.
Some important upcoming dates to keep in mind are as follows:

Sept 15 – Kernel Freeze (2 days)

Sept 22 – Beta 2 (~1 weeks)

Oct 13 – Final Release (~4 weeks)

Status: CVE’s

Currently open CVEs for each supported branch:

Package

Open

linux Hardy

15 (+6)

linux Lucid

7 (+1)

linux Maverick

12 (+6)

linux Natty

11 (+5)

linux Oneiric

5 (–)

linux-ec2 Lucid

7 (+1)

linux-fsl-imx51 Lucid

12 (+6)

linux-mvl-dove Lucid

7 (+1)

linux-mvl-dove Maverick

7 (+1)

linux-ti-omap4 Maverick

12 (+6)

linux-ti-omap4 Natty

12 (+6)

linux-ti-omap4 Oneiric

6 (+1)

linux-lts-backport-maverick Lucid

12 (+6)

linux-lts-backport-natty Lucid

11 (+5)

We had seven new CVEs appear this week. One has already got patches applied, another is under review. It is pleasing to note that the releasing still getting stable updates are already patched for a number of these.
kernel.org being off the air is impacting triage of new reports. We expect to make some progress over the next couple of days getting these closed out.

The stable kernel cadence no longer runs in sync for all kernels.
The Natty kernel is not delayed for any other kernel, due to the value that
this kernel has for many users wishing to obtain the latest fixes. This will
remain the policy for kernels which are version development-1 in the future.

Lucid is being respun due to a regression in the i915 driver. When it is complete,
it will require some time in -proposed and verification to insure that the
regression is solved. In addition, three patches were reverted due to a failure
to be verified.

There have been a dissapointing number of failures to verify fixes in the last cycle,
resulting in reverting a large number of fixes which are probably of high value.